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Read Works

Read Works: The Whys of Weather Clouds

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about clouds and how they are formed. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Bill Nye

Bill Nye: Barometer in a Bottle

For Students 3rd - 8th
This tutorial by Bill Nye explains how to make a simple barometer using a jar and a balloon. The barometer is an old and accurate first look at predicting the weather by examining the pressure of the atmosphere. Discover how atmospheric...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: The Ocean Floor

For Students 3rd - 5th
A slideshow and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of the ocean floor.
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Center of Science and Industry

Cosi Columbus: Clues About Clouds

For Students 3rd - 8th
Science experiment that simulates how clouds are formed. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of what must happen in the atmosphere for cloud formation to occur.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Weather & Climate: Severe Storms

For Students 3rd - 5th
A slideshow and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of severe storms, some types, and the damage that they cause.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Weather & Climate: Clouds and Precipitation

For Students 3rd - 5th
A slideshow and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of clouds, how they form, the kinds of precipitation they can create, the main types of clouds, and cloud descriptor terms.
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NASA

Nasa: Space Place: Kids

For Students 1st - 6th
This collection of resources for children includes games and articles about space exploration. Topics also include the sun and weather.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineering for the Earth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young students are introduced to the complex systems of the Earth through numerous lessons on its natural resources, processes, weather, climate and landforms. Key earth science topics include rocks, soils and minerals, water and natural...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Earth Science for Kids: Weather: Clouds

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about clouds including how they form, levels, fun facts, and types of clouds such as cirrus, cumulus, and stratus.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: The Dirt on Soil

For Students 3rd - 8th
This interactive website explores the various soil layers and introduces you to the lifeforms that live in those soil layers.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Living in the Greenhouse

For Students 3rd - 5th
Check out the whole story of climate from ancient times through greenhouse gasses with this interactive resource.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Beginning Clouds Unit

For Students 3rd - 5th
Explore how clouds are formed with the computer-based model in these interactive activities. Also learn about clouds part in the water cycle. Activity includes pre- and post-tests which can be saved and graded by the teacher.
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Making Community Measurements: Abiotic Factors [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
A lesson plan in which learners explore plant communities and observe different types of soil and weather conditions in an attempt to determine cause and effect relationships. Includes discussion questions, extension activities and web...
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Hurricanes Impact Our Lives

For Students 3rd - 8th
Web weather site for kids highlights hurricanes. Discover how they are formed, the damage they can cause as well as read a weather story about surviving a hurricane.
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Read Works

Read Works: Summer Vacation

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Jose who learned the importance of a weather forecast. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Where Tornadoes Happen

For Students 3rd - 8th
Weather site for kids provides some interesting information about tornadoes. Discover how they are formed, the average number of tornadoes per year as well as play "Chase the Tornado."
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Weather and Climate: Waves and Currents

For Students 2nd - 7th
Liven up classroom learning when studying waves and currents! This video will energize students to know what causes waves and how powerful they can be. Catch a wave.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Weather & Climate: Seasons

For Students 3rd - 5th
A slideshow and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of seasons and how they are caused by the Earth's rotation and orbit.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Weather & Climate: Earth's Atmosphere

For Students 3rd - 5th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on the composition of and the layers in Earth's atmosphere.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Weather & Climate: Air Pressure and Wind

For Students 3rd - 5th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of air pressure and wind. It explains what makes air pressure change, how we measure it, how wind is created, and types of winds.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: How Clouds Form

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Cloud formation results when warm, humid air rises and cools, causing the water vapor in the air to condense and form clouds. For this lesson, students will conduct an activity that demonstrates how this occurs.This lesson plan was...
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Causes and Effects of Thunderstorms

For Students 3rd - 5th
Explains what causes thunderstorms, the different types, and the effects of thunderstorms.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: The Air Out There

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Cooperative learning activity in which students will create a windmill and a weather vane. Students will find the direction of wind and the speed relative to the spinning windmill. Great for K-2.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Water Cycle

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a science flipchart that reviews the stages of the water cycle and also ways in which the water cycle affects weather such as hurricanes and tornadoes.

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